The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is an independent foundation created through a collective initiative led by the IOC that promotes, coordinates and monitors the fight against drugs in sport. WADA is responsible for the World Anti-Doping Code, adopted by more than 600 sports organizations.

Whereabouts (WADA) are information provided by a limited number of top elite Athletes about their location to the International Sport Federation (IF) or National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) that included them in their respective Registered Testing Pool (RTP) as part of these top elite Athletes’ Anti-Doping responsibilities.

Modern Biathle or Modern biathlon is a sub-sport of modern pentathlon invented to create opportunities for training the run and swim parts of pentathlon in real race conditions. In this section you will find information on:

The World School Biathlon is a fun and simple to organize event which helps national federations increase their membership numbers and also to identify talent and recruit the right type of athletes for international events.

Modern Triathle is a new development initiative by UIPM where athletes compete in a shoot swim run competition. Triathle made its debut on international stage at the Biathle Triathle World Championships 2013. From 2014 onwards, it will be a part of the Biathle World Tour

The Masters encourage competitors to keep in touch with Modern Pentathlon thereby contributing to the development of the sport. There are two formats in Masters Competitions: Pentathlon and Tetrathlon.

UIPM has linked up with several providers in order to be able to provide low-cost equipment aimed at helping emerging nations develop with laser pistols and target that replicate the elite level. Providers:

Modern Pentathlon at the Youth Olympic Games, consists of four disciplines with fencing, swimming and the combined run/shoot. As in UIPM Youth competitions, the equestrian is not part of the event. The competition is in fact a tetrathlon.

Dr h.c. Klaus Schormann

Dr h.c. Klaus Schormann has been the President of the International Union of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM) since 1993. This position was jointly held with the President of the International Biathlon Union until 1998 when the two sports separated into self-governing bodies.

Biathle

UIPM Modern Biathle is a sub-sport of modern pentathlon invented to create opportunities for training the run and swim parts of pentathlon in real race conditions.

It can also be seen as a sport in its own right. It bears close resemblance to aquathlon which also contains swimming and running but comes from triathlon sport. It should not be confused with biathlon.

Biathle is an event that involves a run, swim, and run. It is a world class sport but not an Olympic one. The legs are raced with continuous transitions like triathlon. The race length is usually 200 m swim and 3 km run, which is shorter than aquathlon usually is.

A variant is Winter Biathle which has indoor swimming and does not have continuous transitions.

This UIPM project is a multisport activity looking to promote Modern Pentathlon all over the world in the 2 endurance disciplines of Modern Pentathlon, Running and Swimming which are both very useful to detect talents for our Olympic sport with the aim to have new pentathletes competing in Rio 2016! The Biathle World Tour is a competition in its own right where the run-swim-run format is promoted. From 2014, the competition is also holding UIPM Modern Triathle (shoot-swim-run) events when possible.

UIPM wishes to see more nations organizing Biathle competitions, in or out of the Biathle World Tour and we do aim to achieve more nations also thanks to this promotional event across the world. Bid Documents World Tour Biathle Triathle 2015

The UIPM wants to thank you for keeping the UIPM Modern Biathle discipline in constant movement and a particular thank goes to those organisers and nations that with commitment and passion are making this happen since 1999.